“Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought—even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.” Geoff Dyer has ten rules for writing fiction. [via The Paris Review tumblr]

Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog.

Assorted

“For now, I’m content to conclude that there cannot be a unica because human beings are incapable of making things that don’t retain some spark of being.” On The Letters of William Gaddis. [via The American Reader]

David Lynch unveils “I’m Waiting Here”, a track off of his upcoming album The Big Dream, featuring Lykke Li. [via YouTube]